Moscow warns of ongoing war unless Ukraine complies with its maximalist demands – The Kyiv Independent

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  1. Moscow warns of ongoing war unless Ukraine complies with its maximalist demands  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Russia accuses Kyiv and the West of rejecting diplomacy to solve conflict in Ukraine  Reuters
  3. Peace was never West’s goal in Ukraine, says Russia, accusing it of fuelling war by arming Kyiv  Firstpost
  4. The Kremlin called itself a supporter of diplomacy and invented a new reason for the war  Українські Національні Новини
  5. Moscow: West never prioritized settlement of Ukraine crisis  chinadailyasia.com
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Maurice Kamto excluded from Cameroon election list by Elecam – BBC

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  1. Maurice Kamto excluded from Cameroon election list by Elecam  BBC
  2. Cameroon bars main challenger to longtime leader from presidential race  Al Jazeera
  3. Cameroon elections body rejects candidacy of president's main rival  Reuters
  4. Cameroon's electoral body bars president's main rival from standing  africanews.com
  5. Cameroon's election board bars main opposition candidate from presidential race  The Washington Post
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Spanish discovery suggests Roman era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue

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Oil lamp fragments point to presence of previously unknown Jewish population in Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo

Seventeen centuries after they last burned, a handful of broken oil lamps could shed light on a small and long-vanished Jewish community that lived in southern Spain in the late Roman era as the old gods were being snuffed out by Christianity.

Archaeologists excavating the Ibero-Roman town of Cástulo, whose ruins lie near the present-day Andalucían town of Linares, have uncovered evidence of an apparent Jewish presence there in the late fourth or early fifth century AD.

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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals – The New York Times

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  1. No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals  The New York Times
  2. British surgeon claims IDF shooting Gazans in specific areas - 'almost like a game of target practice'  Sky News
  3. I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard  The Guardian
  4. As a Medical Student in Gaza, I Studied Malnutrition. Now It’s All Around Me.  Truthout
  5. “Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children  Democracy Now!
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YouTube makes last-ditch attempt to lobby government against inclusion in under-16s social media ban

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Google to host major event featuring popular YouTubers inside Parliament House as PM downplays tech giant’s legal threat

YouTube is making a last-ditch effort to persuade the government not to include it in the under-16s social media ban, objecting to what it says is an “abrupt policy reversal” and arguing the video service is not a social media platform.

Google, YouTube’s owner, will host a major event featuring popular YouTubers inside Parliament House this week, as a final decision looms on which tech platforms will be off-limits for children.

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‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict

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While Palestinians starve and global opinion hardens, judgment from international court may not come until 2027 – or later

While Palestinians in Gaza die in ever-increasing numbers from starvation each day and a growing number of legal scholars, aid officials and politicians have begun describing Israel’s actions as genocide, a definitive ruling on the question by the world’s top court will be a long time coming.

Experts on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said a judgment on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is unlikely before the end of 2027 at the earliest, amid warnings that the international community should not use the court’s glacial proceedings as an excuse to put off action to stop the killing.

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Thousands in Greece and Turkey evacuate as winds and heat fan wildfires

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Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft join rescue effort in Greece, and firefighter among those killed in Turkey

Thousands of people in Greece and Turkey have been forced to evacuate homes as firefighters in the countries battled to contain wildfires fanned by strong winds and searing heat.

As temperatures in south-eastern Europe exceeded 40C for a seventh straight day, the Greek prime minister praised rescue workers for waging “a titanic battle” to bring blazes under control.

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Private equity fund offers car tycoon €1.1m to settle claim over investment cash

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Big Motoring World founder Peter Waddell says Freshstream made him forfeit sum as it saw him as a nuisance

A private equity company accused of ousting a multimillionaire used car salesman from his own business has offered to pay €1.1m (£950,000) to settle a separate case with him.

Peter Waddell filed his first high court claim against Freshstream last year, alleging that the investment firm used an independent investigation into contested sexist, racist and abusive comments “as a means of securing [his] exclusion” from his used car empire, Big Motoring World. Freshstream had acquired a one-third share in Big during 2022.

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